In article <1995Oct7.152513@miavx1>, [log in to unmask] (Bob
Williams) asked:
> Why is it that sometimes, a person can clearly be logged in (they are on
> the user list, and if you finger them, they are on and doing something),
> but when I try to SEND a message to them, it says they are not logged in
> (but finger them again, and they are still logged in). I've experienced
> this twice since last night. One person was in a lab and was in Lynx, and
> the other was a dial-in, and was in the VMS Mail system.
 
It could be that they have SET BROADCAST=NONE to prevent them from receiving
interactive messages, such as SENDs, PHONE messages, e-mail receipt
notifications, etc.  Usually this is done when a person needs or wants to
work uninterrupted.  Here are the parameters for the SET BROADCAST command:
 
SET
 
  BROADCAST
 
    Parameter
 
 
 
      class-name[,...]
 
         Specifies the class of message that you want to enable or disable
         for broadcast to your terminal. If you specify only one class,
         you can omit the parentheses. The class names are as follows:
 
         ALL                  Enables all message classes.
 
         [NO]DCL              Specifies Ctrl/T and SPAWN/NOTIFY messages.
 
         [NO]GENERAL          Specifies all normal REPLY messages or
                              messages from $BRDCST.
 
         [NO]MAIL             Specifies notification of mail.
 
         NONE                 Disables all message classes.
 
         [NO]OPCOM            Specifies messages issued by the operator
                              communication process (OPCOM).
 
         [NO]PHONE            Specifies messages from the Phone utility.
 
         [NO]QUEUE            Specifies messages referring to print or
                              batch jobs issued by the queue manager.
 
         [NO]SHUTDOWN         Specifies messages issued from the REPLY
                              /SHUTDOWN command.
 
         [NO]URGENT           Specifies messages issued from the REPLY
                              /URGENT command.
 
         [NO]USER1 to         Specifies messages from specific user
         [NO]USER16           groups. (For information on setting up
                              user-written broadcast messages, see the
                              description of the $BRKTHRU system service
                              in the OpenVMS System Services Reference
                              Manual.)
 
John
 
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                                John B Harlan
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                              Miami University
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